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Gen_7:6 And Noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
Ver. 6. And Noah was six hundred years old.] He was five hundred old when God first foretold the flood, and promised the old world one hundred and twenty years’ respite: but, wearied out with their obstinacy in sin, he "cut the work short in righteousness," {Rom_9:28} and brought the flood upon them twenty years sooner: as it is said of Christ’s second coming, that, "for the elect’s sake, those days shall be shortened"; {Mat_24:22} so, for the contumacy of these ungodly sinners, their judgment was hastened. For God is not asleep, or gone a journey, as the prophet said of Baal, &c. {1Ki_18:27}